GOffice licensing problem

Hi there ants,

There is one more issue holding up 2.6.0: the inclusion of goffice code
in our tree. This makes us as a whole GPLv2 only, since goffice code is
GPLv2 (not GPLv2+).

This means we can't include our math plugin anymore in combination with
the lastest GtkMathView release for example, since that is GPLv3.

As I see it, we have 4 options:

1) There is no problem, just accept that we can not use GLPv3 code. If
that means no more equations, so be it.
2) Have (parts of) goffice relicensed to GPLv2+ (which Jody thinks might
be doable). I saw Red Hat as copyright owner for parts, so this might
take more time than we'd like.
3) Ditch the goffice bits, and just add a dynamic dependency on
libgoffice (this will also make the goffice plugin we ship work properly
again iirc). I think this will be a unix only dep.
4) As far as I can see (just had a quick look, please correct me), we
only include goffice code for a single color picker widget. We can ditch
that, and just use the stock (and uglier) gtk color picker.

Input?

  Marc
Received on Sun Nov 25 22:33:26 2007